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The obsession with economic output as a measure of human development puts sustainability on the back burner. Researchers can ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been hyped to the skies as the “fourth industrial revolution” and the thing that will wipe out 50% of white-collar workers’ jobs. There’s just one problem with that, ...

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We should spend less time comforting ourselves with imperfect comparisons to worse-off countries, and more time setting ...

Former Niti Aayog vice chairman and economist Rajiv Kumar’s in his latest book talks about a new way to measure growth — replacing GDP with gross welfare product, which factors in education, health ...

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The U.S. Gross Domestic Product for the second quarter of 2025 was revised upward to a 3.8% increase, said a report from the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

The world only began to experience notable economic growth in the late 19th century. Even then, it was the reserve of heavily industrialised nations. Thanks to the mercantilist policies of Europe's ...

FOR decades, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has stood tall as the world’s dominant indicator of economic progress. National statisticians painstakingly compile figures on production, consumption, ...

New orders for U.S.-made goods increased less than expected in August, though business spending on equipment appeared to be recovering, which likely supported the economy in the third quarter.

The results challenge claims that the climate risks posed by an individual fossil fuel project are negligible or cannot be ...